Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-25
BILL ARP.
Talks About Old Times In the South.
Atlanta Constitution

"H'" NSbetitutOu.
Wnat aglorious picture Mr.. Lama,
gave us OF the old southern planter
nome. THE sweet and noble asso.
ciatlons; the pure refining and eleva.
ting atmosphere; the abode of do.
mestlc JOYS and duties; the hospitali.
" heartfelt simply and generous, ),
wonder If he was not limiting az
Professor Tillett's article In the 5,en.
tury when he said:
"Ihe Southern planter was far
rom being the self-indulgeht. indo-
lent, .ooverbearing person that he has
sometimes been pictured. He was In
general, careful, patient, proyident.
industrious, forbearing, and vet firm
ana determined. These were the
qualities that enabled him to take =
race OF savages and make them the
Iihest body of agricultural and
domestlc laborers the world has ever
seeu, and to elevate them in the
scale OF national existence. In his
dally ana yearly provision for these
dependents for whom he felt resnon-
sible and about whom his anxieties
were ever alive he was himself edu.
Gated in those faculties which enabled
him TO emerge from his solitude and
preside In his county court or become
q member of the legislature or take
ms place in the national councils and
hence 1t was that the southern plan
Ter was SO well fitted to discharge the
auties OF local magistracy, to guide |
legislatures and command armies.u
Ihen Mr.. Lamar In confirmation
OF his utterances cites MANY of the
noblest Americans who were reared /
upon the old plantations.
we OF the old South are comforted
at this great speech made at the un-
yelling OF Mr.. CalhOun's monument.
IL comes as authority. 1t comes
rom the cabinet, and ex cathedra
and is like decision Of the supreme
court, 1t settles the question. 1 hone
now that these juveniles who knew
lothing OF the old patriarchal sys
.em VIII hold their peace. Why,
nat article in the Century gives the
lew. south the credit of getting fine
tock IN the country, when the truth
$ kentucky had more fine stock be-
ore the war than any northern state
lnd as for hogs we never heard of
rain load of bacon coming to Georgia
rom the West. There were more {
Inc, fat hogs raised in Walker t
ouhty than in any twenty counties S
I0W, ana | can prove that by Joe b
NardlaW- We didn't raise as much b
ottoh because there was not so MANY
iborers, but we did raise as much TO t
ne mule and we raised more of u
verything else. = b
Ihere is no more advance IN a
Material and industrial progress ey. I
apt in that general progression "
men new machinery, new arts and '
here.
When Mr.. Lamar spoke of tbe
'uthern planters penetrating the Sc
ense forests, of the west, the tangled o.
rake and gloomy wilderness and ii
lbduing them, / was reminded of q N
urntey | made through Missiissppi ts
st forty years ago. rode forty a
iles one day and passed but 81
ngle farm. That night / crossed a
~ SlicdSdildy river and StaVed al
18th a Mr.. Calhoun, cousin of the M
eat statesman. He had over q IN
inbred slaves and they had cleared D,
e rich river bottoms and the cribs pt
ere full of corn, and fat hogs were W
uniting around and cows and a
'rses and mules abounded and the ca
groes were slick and greasy and is
eat supper by the light of a
dollar candlestick. for II Sc
rs good looking darky holding a tn
tch. This was the life of a pioneer.
e OF the men that Mr.. Lamar tells
out, and who never would have
: the more pleasant abodes Of
'illzation except for the care and DO
possibility that his dependent th'
yes imposed upon him. He wa
.nted more land and better land WI
e world needed the cotton and lyi
was manifest destiny that thew :
,uld raise it. And we raised hoo OF
hominy too, but we don't now.
buy it. o"'